EA and Crytek
announce that they are offering the chance to play Crysis Wars for
free next weekend, giving everyone a chance to sample the enhanced Crysis
multiplayer play included with Crysis Warhead, Crytek's first-person
shooter follow-up. Beginning Monday, those willing to register on
MyCrysis can download a Crysis
Wars client and get an activation key to allow online play from Friday, October
10th at through Sunday, October 12th. This sparked our curiosity over whether
this was intended to promote Crysis Warhead or perhaps an indication that a
standalone Crysis Wars release was being considered, so we asked EA about this,
and were told: "There are no plans at this time to make Crysis Wars a separate,
standalone product."